UFOMYST
CaseLight2015

Portsmouth, VA, USA

Did anyone else see a bright light with a tail in Portsmouth, Virginia? I have some video. Looked like a comet.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-02-11
Where
Portsmouth, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
not sure
Geo
36.835, -76.298 · exact
Slug
light-over-portsmouth-va-2015-1ec3c4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Portsmouth, VA logged 3 reports in the single month of February 2015.

In context

  • One of 38 documented reports from Portsmouth, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 151 sightings in 2015.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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